Map Updates

symes51 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 08, 2006 Posts: 11

Hello.

I have an original TomTom ONE and like everyone else I am sure, I have noted a few mapping inconsistencies. The TomTom website advertises map updates but it doesn't say which version it is selling.

I am aware mapping info is supplied by teleatlas and things take time to be incorporated into the maps supplied by TomTom.

My question is, how do I find out if there is a map update available from the version I currently have and is the only way to update my maps to buy a new SD card from TomTom?

Thanks for your help

DennisN · Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 6:49 pm Post subject:

I have a GO 700, but probably the same applies to you as to me (and many others). To the best of my knowledge, there have been no map updates for maybe 18 months.
Six months ago, the Tom Tom website was forecasting map updates in the second quarter of 2006. When the second quarter expired, they changed the forecast to Third Quarter. Now that the third quarter has expired, they have changed to "soon". If you have not already done so, register on their website for their newsletter and who knows, you may get an e-mail telling you when the updates become available. Otherwise watch this website for comments.
I imagine you'll find the only way of getting map updates is from Tom Tom - no third parties.

TuurG · Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 11:58 pm Post subject: Re: Map Updates

Andy_P · Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 1:43 pm Post subject:

Just so you realise you aren't alone, symes51; it does drive everybody else mad too that TomTom REFUSE to publish version numbers of the maps they sell.
Many people have emailed them to remind them that it is impossible to tell if you are buying exactly the same version as you have already, but they are always fobbed off with meaningless (and often, frankly insulting) replies.

Colinsp · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 11, 2004 Posts: 19

Reading this thread prompts a question. I have a 700 with the V6.06 maps. I live in Spain and these maps are woefully out of date (at least 5 if not 8 years). Are the v6.5 maps updated or will this be the later release that is being talked about in this thread?

TIA

DennisN · Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 4:30 pm Post subject:

My 700 has Western_Europe-Map v606.0 and it let me down seriously in Italy last month (Milan area has loads of new road build). I bought it in May this year and still await the long overdue map updates.
From looking at other threads on this site, I believe there are different map version numbers current, depending on what map you have and what model TT you have - in other words, for two models, the same map would have different version numbers. So if someone says they have map version 615, it may simply be another model's map, not a more up to date map.
We've given up trying to get sense out of Tom Tom.
For map updates, see Tom Tom support pages - How can I update my maps.
http://www.tomtom.com/support/index.php?Lid=1

kevinx · Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 8:04 pm Post subject:

True enough, it's VERY difficult to get a sensible answer from TomTom as to when the new maps will be released. "Soon" is all I, and others are being told.
in the case of the DOWNLOADABLE UK map data, the version number is unspecified, so you don't know which version you'd be downloading.
However, the W European maps (on SD) DO show the version number, only when you have gone through to the order section, and review your order. It then states v6.50, but it does NOT show this on the "advert" for the map.
How difficult is it for them to append the product name, with the version number? Dohhhh.

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DennisN · Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 5:01 pm Post subject:

So the Western Europe map on SD is version 6.50 and is intended for upgrading to additional coverage (NOT updating) for GO 300 and 500.
BUT does that ACTUALLY mean that my Western Europe map v606.0, which came on my 700's hard disk, is less up to date and I'd be getting a newer version if I bought the SD and ported it across to my hard disk?? From what I've read "here", that is most unlikely.

sgould · Frequent Visitor Joined: Oct 05, 2004 Posts: 1320

The Western Europe map on the 1GB Sd card is not a straight replacement for the 700 map. It's smaller - it does not include Poland and Czech Republic.

Bigger numbers don't necessarily mean later maps. They are just version numbers, not necesarily sequential.
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kevinx · Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 8:03 pm Post subject:

Not to be pedantic, but isn't the Czech Republic, and Poland EASTERN Europe??

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DennisN · Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 9:36 pm Post subject:

Depends where you draw the north/south dividing line I suppose. But if you drew it to exclude Czech Republic and Poland, you'd pretty much have to exclude Austria and Denmark too!
Thanks for the comment though - I've just checked with MS Autoroute to find that they include Czech Republic and Slovakia. Whilst doing so I discovered by joyful chance that MS Autoroute also includes a pretty comprehensive streetmap of Athens. Not that it helps much for the rest of Greece, but it may signal a move in the right direction!
But to revert to the original thread - I would suggest that Symes51 sits tight and waits for the next set of map updates, which will not pass unnoticed on this website! As previously stated, they'll become available "soon" (but don't hold me responsible for TomTom's current delivery forecast!!).

sgould · Frequent Visitor Joined: Oct 05, 2004 Posts: 1320

My 700 map (v568) has a street map of Athens too Wink

It hangs on the end of a single road that runs from Vienna, via Skopje....
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DennisN · Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 6:50 pm Post subject:

Well strewth, so has mine (map v606.0 - nah nah na nah nah!!, but still out of date, of course).
Thanks again. Course, I REALLY wanted Corfu, but I'll make do without - if ONLY TT would update us all.

joedavid0 · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 12, 2005 Posts: 23

I'm registered with TomTom and they offered me a TomTom Home computer programme, when conected to this it said I needed an update to version 6xx. I did this now the programme reports no updates available, so I assume I have the latest maps as offered on thier web site.
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DennisN · Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 9:38 pm Post subject:

That's only referring to updates to the TT software, which are free, not the maps, which are not free.
You download (or purchase on sundry media) maps from the TT website, BUT DON'T DO IT right now as new maps are due "soon" and you won't know if what you buy today is any better than what you've got.

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